A Mark In Time
Previous Tours => 2010 Get Lucky Tour => Topic started by: allen on November 03, 2009, 07:01:25 AM
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As the Afghanistan conflict enters its eighth year, The Royal British Legion is asking thousands of Britons to stand together and reflect on the price of freedom, which is still being paid, at Silence in the Square in Trafalgar Square, London.
Musical acts Athlete and Mark Knopfler will join comp
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Guy confirmed on his forum that the band will play Remembrance Day! Wow! Anyone out there could pay a visit? Will we get some pictures, or audio, or even video clips from that event?
Wishes
Allen
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wow....wow...
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Let's hope it's even televised! :)
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Yes, surely this will be televised, maybe on Sky News or BBC News 24?
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I am on holiday and will almost certainly go. Have never been in central London on the morning of Remembrance Day, so it's about time I went.
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I've emailed Sky News and BBC News 24 to ask if they will be providing coverage, will let you know what, if any, response I get.
Quite often something like this can just depend on events. If it's a "slow news day" then they may well have live coverage. If war breaks out with Russia, or one of the X Factor contestants break a nail or something equally "big" happens then they may not.
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;D
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No newspaper for the TV guide of both TV stations? Oops, you mean the news programs. Hope they can broadcast the whole event. I'm checking their official websites to see if we can get something out. :P :P :P
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I had a look but the problem is, as I mentioned above, they provide "live" coverage of the news, so the schedules would probably just say "News".
They both gave full uninterupted coverage of Michael Jackson's funeral, not sure if remembering the war dead will be seen as being as "newsworthy" as that. :-\
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Mark will also be a guest on "Good Morning Sunday" on BBC Radio 2 from 7am to 9.30am on Sunday, next, 9th November.
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The more, the better!!!!! Thanks for the info.
Mark will also be a guest on "Good Morning Sunday" on BBC Radio 2 from 7am to 9.30am on Sunday, next, 9th November.
Can we get the recording from a site?
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Mark will also be a guest on "Good Morning Sunday" on BBC Radio 2 from 7am to 9.30am on Sunday, next, 9th November.
Good info, is this the Aled Jones show? Wil somebody record?
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I will, if I'm alert enough at 7am! It will be on iPlayer too! :D Yes, it's Aled Jones.
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Sorry, a little amendment, it's Sunday 8th November from 7am to 9.05am! :)
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I will, if I'm alert enough at 7am! It will be on iPlayer too! :D Yes, it's Aled Jones.
Yeah, iplayer's fine, but if SOMEONE can make a direct recording from FM the quality will of course be better. ;)
My MD is out of action at the moment. :-\
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Yes, I'll make sure I'm awake! ;D
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Dusty I cracked up when you said "If war breaks out .. then they may not" - We will have to remember that one as well! Hey is Mark turning into Harry Secombe? J
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Here's evidence of howmuch effort and thought goes into BBC News 24.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5evS-ApSNQ
(This guy is a taxi driver who just happened to be sitting there and they put him on air by mistake.)
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I will probably drag my butt up to it. Will definitely be able to get some pics but cant get any audio I'm afraid.
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Good Morning Sunday - I have just finished listening to Mark's contribution on this programme and have recorded it so far. It was a recorded interview from a few weeks ago and very short - nothing much we haven't heard before! I am pretty irritated though, because Aled Jones played "Piper to the End" and then proceeded to talk all over the beautiful end solo! Complete and utter disrespect for the artist and the song imo! It will also be available to hear again on iPlayer. (Mark's part is just after the 8am news).
BTW I also looked at BBC Radio 2 playlist for the coming week and Mark's single doesn't appear on any of the playlists, A B or C! The BBC, so far have given neither the album nor the single hardly any publicity as far as I can see! Feeling quite disgruntled this morning! :(
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I just got home and missed the live play, and I've checked the website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_radio_two?sort=dateavailable it's not updated yet. Sigh, why more and more young and sexy guys are getting more and more attraction while the masters of those authentic music origins are having less and less publicity.
Wishes
Allen
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OK, here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00nshmv From 1:11:23 to 1:20:16
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Quote Val: " Feeling quite disgruntled this morning! "
Sorry I didn't listen yet Allen but will do it tomorrow! I need to leave now, BUT .............I first need to give Val a BIG HUG and kisses and hope she will feel better again! :-* ;D
Thank you for getting up so early Val and giving us the news! ;) Perhaps I listen to the wrong radio stations but I didn't hear a song of Mark's new CD yet! :(
Fieneke
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Thanks Fieneke, Over it now, it was a bit early in the morning for me! ;D I'm looking forward to hearing something from "Silence in the Square" on Wednesday. Maybe someone will record it ! :)
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Does anybody knows which TV station has officially announced to film the event?
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None, as far as I am aware.
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Seeing as neither Sky or the BBC bothered to reply to my emails, I just emailed teh Royal British Legion to ask if it will be televised. Hopefully they are better organised than the BBC, who I pay for.
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Let's wait and see. Hopefully you can get lucky this time. By the way, the single has been released today. Anyone got it yet?
Wishes
Allen
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I have emailed BBC radio 2 today to see why "Remembrance Day" isn't on their playlists. I don't really expect a reply from them either. They have been playing the Athlete's "Black Swan Song" from their "A" list for two weeks now, and I think all of the singles donating to the Poppy Appeal should be given the same recognition.
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A nice thought Val but I would assume that the fact that it's a charity single isn't the main or even one of the factors they take into account when deciding on playlist status. First and foremost it has to be a catchy and therefore "radio friendly" song, and Remembrance Day isn't really that type of track. To be fair, they have shown in the past that when MK does release a catchy track they will back him, look at What It Is, Sailing to Philadelphia and This Is us, all of them got lots of play on Radio 2.
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Seeing as neither Sky or the BBC bothered to reply to my emails, I just emailed teh Royal British Legion to ask if it will be televised. Hopefully they are better organised than the BBC, who I pay for.
The BBC are scheduled to cover a memorial service from Westminster Abbey on their main channel (BBC1) between 10am and 11:30am. So I don't think there is much chance of any extensive coverage of "Silence in the Square" by the BBC. Maybe a few seconds in a news bulletin is the best there will be.
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Yes I know what you mean, dusty, about "Remembrance Day" but "Piper to the End" is a beautiful song and radio-friendly and they could have played it on Radio 2. I think it is just as lovely, even more catchy imo, than "Black Swan Song" which has been on #1 playlist for some weeks! I suppose Athlete are just more "cool" or "trendy" than MK for Radio 2 these days. If it isn't given air-time, how are the general public going to hear it and donate to the charity?
I know they played "What it is", "STP", etc a lot, but "Border Reiver" didn't get much airplay. :)
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I think Piper to the End is an amazing song, but I have to be honest and say it even took a few listens to get under my skin. Also in Radio 2's defence, it's not being promoted as a single anyway.
I can't say I'm surprised that Border Reiver didn't get much airplay, not really a lot of love out there for "fiddle-dee-diddle-dee" music I think. To be fair, I don't think MK really cares much about this stuff, other than the fact that he wants as much money to go to the British Legion as possible.
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By the way, Guy has just confirmed on his forum that they will be playing Remembrance Day just after 9am, so keep an eye on Sky News and News 24 then just in case.
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By the way, Guy has just confirmed on his forum that they will be playing Remembrance Day just after 9am, so keep an eye on Sky News and News 24 then just in case.
Guy has now amended this to "around 10:30ish"
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A reply from the British Legion!
Dear Mr Duncan
Thank you for your email.
The silence in square on Wednesday is not being televised.
Kind regards
Debbie Hawke
Legionline Co-ordinator
Legionline 08457 725 725
Direct Line 020 3207 2119
Too bad. If anyone from here is going down, please take a video camera to record this unique event for the ages.
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It's disappointing that the details regarding this performance have been so sketchy. All we want is to see and hear the performance and somehow we don't even know what channel to put on and, if it wasn't for Guy's forum, the time either. Even Guy wasn't sure of the time! One would think this sort of info would be published on the official site/news site because it's bound to be shown somewhere but we seem to be left in the dark.
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It has not even been mentioned on BBC Breakfast this morning! :-\
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Nope. I've been flicking between BBC, ITV & SKY, but not even a mention :(
I wish i'd gone to London today now, as i'm actually on holiday this week, but i'm in bed with a bad chest infection, so was really hoping to have seen it on the tv.
Oh well. I'm sure some footage will turn up somewhere. It normally does.
Cheers BBB
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BBB - Sorry you're not well, I hope you feel better soon! Keep flicking those TV channels, something may happen somewhere! ;D
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Just found this.
Not much good i know, cos the pic is quite far away, plus you can't hear anything, but it's a live webcam (refreshed every 5 seconds)
of Trafalgar Sq.
www.camvista.com/england/london/trafsq.php3
Cheers BBB
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Might be able to see them set up, albeit from a distance. :)
Cheers BBB
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Apparently BBC1, BBC HD and BBC News 24 are all showing the service in Westminster Abbey! You'd think one of them would show Trafalgar Square.
They should play Lions too!
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I'm sure a fan on the markknopler.com forum posted that they were intending to be in Trafalgar Square today and were hoping to video the performance. So maybe, just maybe.
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FenderBender, Yes I read that too, so let's hope for the best! ;)
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Mark performed BIA. http://twitter.com/PoppyLegion
P.S. But perhaps it is mystake report. It should be RD of course
P.P.S. Second report about BIA during soundcheck http://twitter.com/stephenfry
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(http://web3.twitpic.com/img/42151998-98caae13979fcdc46806066afcc9a337.4afa954f-full.jpg)
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Thanks ustas! :)
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(http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/42146123.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1257937052&Signature=PyC4UPb42c0xrcVFQXbs3jwRgIw%3D)
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(http://web11.twitpic.com/img/42152181-f8320ed6fcef08e4a3177b094b34116b.4afa9508-full.jpg)
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Looks like Danny going up in the first pic?
Nice to see them all suited and booted and looking respectable.
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Looks like Danny going up in the first pic?
Nice to see them all suited and booted and looking respectable.
Yeah looks like Danny
I agree!
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Umm... Which picture? ???
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The pics have disappeared, I can't see them anymore!
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Me too, it is tweetpic feed
http://twitpic.com/p3gou
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I can
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I can
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Went and saw this today and recorded it on my new camcorder. Will try and share later..........somehow.
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Went and saw this today and recorded it on my new camcorder. Will try and share later..........somehow.
Great! How did you like it? What songs were played, BIA and RD?
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Please, share them, :o have you fixed the bug on uploading on the tracker?
Wishes
Allen
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They did RD. Sadly only the vocals were live. It was strange see MK with a bunch of people not that excited about it.
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Even if only the vocals are live, it's really nice to have them to sing the back vocals. I thought they would sing BIA instead of RD because of lack of children's back vocals.
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They had a male choir and schoolkids on stage
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Nice one. What format does your camcorder record to?
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They had a male choir and schoolkids on stage
Great!!!!! Now more looking forward to seeing your taping.
Wishes
Allen
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mmmmmm....good question dusty. I dont know yet. Only got it last night. Its a toshiba if anyone knows. The actual memory is a sd card not dvd.
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Me too, it is tweetpic feed
http://twitpic.com/p3gou
Thank you! MK in suit and black scarf (?), nice!
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Me too, it is tweetpic feed
http://twitpic.com/p3gou
Thank you! MK in suit and black scarf (?), nice!
And carpet slippers by the look of it :D
Actually I think it is more likely the collar of a black shirt that can be seen in the pic, rather than a black scarf.
Looks like it was quite sunny in London this morning.
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it was a black roll neck jumper, all he needed was a box of milktray
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mmmmmm....good question dusty. I dont know yet. Only got it last night. Its a toshiba if anyone knows. The actual memory is a sd card not dvd.
Right, well if you want to send me the SD card via registered post I can get it online and post it back to you.
Alternatively, if the file's not too big you could perhaps stick it up on Rapidshare or something.
Vy the way, I tried tro phone you last night but just got the machine, will try again tonight. :)
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mmmmmm....good question dusty. I dont know yet. Only got it last night. Its a toshiba if anyone knows. The actual memory is a sd card not dvd.
Right, well if you want to send me the SD card via registered post I can get it online and post it back to you.
Alternatively, if the file's not too big you could perhaps stick it up on Rapidshare or something.
Vy the way, I tried tro phone you last night but just got the machine, will try again tonight. :)
Sorry about that, I left for work early so I could get up early so I could go to London. Can you recommend a torrent host to try to upload the Hurlingham gig. I use bittorrent. If you can I will install it before you call.
I'll give it a go uploading the remembrance day file.
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Not sure what you mean by host, if you're talking about software I use uTorrent.
The laknopflertk tracker is actually just about the easiest tracker to upload stuff to, very simple. Dime is a nightmare in comparison. :-\
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Sorry wrong lingo I'll try utorrent, that makes it easy so. Am just uploading Remembrance Day to megaupload its pretty slow and its a 300mb .mov file. Will update when its done.
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Cool stuff, thanks for all your efforts. :)
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mmmmmm....good question dusty. I dont know yet. Only got it last night. Its a toshiba if anyone knows. The actual memory is a sd card not dvd.
Right, well if you want to send me the SD card via registered post I can get it online and post it back to you.
Alternatively, if the file's not too big you could perhaps stick it up on Rapidshare or something.
Vy the way, I tried tro phone you last night but just got the machine, will try again tonight. :)
There is a free service in France to upload and share files.
I don't know if there is geographical restriction but you can upload up to 1GB per file on it. Files are deleted after 30 days without download.
Check http://dl.free.fr
Edit : even better -> Web: 1Go but FTP: 10Go
I would recommend using ftp transfert that allow to resume if transfert interrupted before completed.
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I guess Mark feels sad because he can't improvise and play his guitar the way it should be played live to the song that really deserves a bit more dedication for the sake of all those fallen soldiers.I am sure it is someone else's fault once again.
Also ,Thanks a lot Banjo99uk for uploading his RD recording and the Hurlingham gig,I can't wait for it. ;D
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Fantastic, thank you! Stephen Fry is awesome. And I'm glad we got a first glimpse at MK with this vid. Although he looked strange with that turtleneck pullover ;D
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Thanks for sharing!
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here's the full mk clip I recorded.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D3V20HC0
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Thank you very much!! ;D ;D
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Thanks!
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Banjo99uk, Thank you for uploading for us, but it isn't working for me. I have tried three times and only get a "still" picture for a few seconds. Anyone else have this problem? :-\
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I have this message :
"Ce fichier n'est pr
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I had a problem downloading it too,but I refreshed the page like a hundred times and now it is finally downloading,still it is going very slow
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I downloaded it successfully, but it still won't play.
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Let me look into this, maybe I need to convert it into an avi file.
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I just read on Markknopfler.com that Knoplerfan, who also went to Trafalgar Square, has made a film and taken pictures, which he will be uploading soon! :)
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Hi!
The download works for me, but the video freezes every 2-3 second when I play it in either Quicktime-player or VLC. Looks like a really great video, though :)
Jarle
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Same problem for me.
Does this one is an "mac exclusive" ?
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Hi all! :)
Oddly Stephen Fry on Twitter says that they were doing soundchecks and MK was playing Brothers in Arms....?
How odd, do you think he just thought he was gonna play that or maybe he did not know the name of the song!!!
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I just saw the video,it is a bit shaky but I loved it,Mark looked in perfect shape I must say.Once more thanks again for uploading it.
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Fantastic, thank you! Stephen Fry is awesome. And I'm glad we got a first glimpse at MK with this vid. Although he looked strange with that turtleneck pullover ;D
Stephen Fry is definitely a national institution....
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i like the way he has that "mandela show" look...all serious and all. he does that well.
always like cerys matthews by the way, old boozer...
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too bad it's playback.... ( except the voice)
but nice to see them :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyDBXcOwQ5g
Recorded by Knopflerfan from MK.com Hope pics from him coming up soon.
Wishes
Allen
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Markie is having some problems with his singing, a little shaky, cold perhaps? But it gets a little better as he goes. It's a great tune anyway.
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Thanks for uploading guys ;)
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And please watch this link http://www.guyfletcher.co.uk/index.php/gallery/Silence_In_The_Square, Guy will upload some pics hopefully later today, as he promised.
Wishes
Allen
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Thank you for uploading! :D
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A little compilation with a few pics from Mark in it : (Source: am012513 from MKNews forum)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rXsTxMedAw
Wishes
Allen
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More photos from Flickr.com
http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4095089333_ca491eb5c1_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/4095282727_c14e492580_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4097139601_629f0f1487_o.jpg
Wishes
Allen
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Thanks for that. It was great to see. :)
Cheers BBB
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Thanks!
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Actually Stephen Fry is far away to be that kind of person...
He is still one of the best, it
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If more time was given to MK during the event, I think he'd like to play BIA, dedicated to this special moment. By the way, Guy has uploaded some nice photos, go for a look.
Wishes
Allen
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The British Legion said he was going to play BiA as well, so maybe he soundchecked it, but they ran out of time.
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First of all, doesn't MK look cool?
(http://www.guyfletcher.co.uk/images/cms/galleries/MKaar.jpg)
Secondly, why do you need to tune a guitar for a playback performance?
(http://www.guyfletcher.co.uk/images/cms/galleries/Glenncheckstuning.jpg)
Oh, and I hope they didn't risk his 58 LP for a playback.
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Very cool! :P
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Mark looks absolutely COOL........... :D He keeps looking better as he gets older. :D
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I agree with you sweetsurrender ;)
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I was obviously disappointed it was a playback. Especially as Athlete seemed totally live and had a better sound that day but I cant be sure as I dont know there songs that well.
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Torrent of Trafalgar Square in la Knopfler TK (video).
http://tracker.knopflertk.net/torrents-details.php?id=1722
Wishes.
Francis.
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Yes MK looks cool although I still prefer a black shirt over that turtleneck thingy ;D Been wondering about the guitar tuning, too.
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I'd say MK looks both cool and cold but...
It was unfortunate that it wasn't peformed live especially since Guy had mentioned they had already rehearsed it with the possibility of playing it at one of the promo gigs. It may have been outwith their hands.
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Mark's guitar was wired and his amp was miked so I assume that at least on stage his guitar palying was clearly audible
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Mark's guitar was wired and his amp was miked so I assume that at least on stage his guitar palying was clearly audible
I find that highly unlikely to be honest, wouldn't make any sense at all to do that.
Best theory I can come up with is that the original plan was to play BiA live but RD playback, then BiA had to be dropped, despite being soundchecked.
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Guy has confirmed on his forum that they only intended to perform Remembrance Day. In that case I can confirm that Stephen Fry is a pompous prick! ;D
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Guy has confirmed on his forum that they only intended to perform Remembrance Day. In that case I can confirm that Stephen Fry is a pompous prick! ;D
There is a very good reason that it's called twitter ;D
I just can't work out whether the bigger twits are those who post or those who follow these inconsequential twitterings.
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From Guy's Forum this morning regarding Stephen Fry:
Well the king tweet did indeed make a bit of an error..I quote 'Sound check in Teafalgar Sq: Mark Knopfler is singing "Brothers in Arms"...' Not particularly accurate on several fronts. Not sure if I'm going to continue twatting, I enjoy staying in touch via this forum a whole lot more
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I don't know what the big deal is, so SF is not a huge MK fan and doesn't know all the songs? So what?
I have never understood "twitter" either, I think they should rename it "Stalker"
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I don't know what the big deal is, so SF is not a huge MK fan and doesn't know all the songs? So what?
I have never understood "twitter" either, I think they should rename it "Stalker"
The fact is he built up hopes of MK fans that he was going to play both songs. It was irresponsible of him. If he was unsure of the song he didn't have to mention it's name at all.
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From Guy's Forum this morning regarding Stephen Fry:
Well the king tweet did indeed make a bit of an error..I quote 'Sound check in Teafalgar Sq: Mark Knopfler is singing "Brothers in Arms"...' Not particularly accurate on several fronts. Not sure if I'm going to continue twatting, I enjoy staying in touch via this forum a whole lot more
Hi Val.
I nearly choked on my coffee :o. Did Guy really write "twatting" at this time of the morning?
In these parts "twat" is not a very polite turn of phrase at all. Though slightly more polite than the closely related word used occasionally on this site to describe James Blunt ;D
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Fenderbender - They were Guy's exact words, I did a bit of copy and pasting! ;D I always thought THAT word was a bit on the rude side too. Maybe not now! ;)
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Just a bit of a joke I guess. David Cameron did similar recently.
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My english is too poor to acuratly understand the subtile "twit twat".
All I can say is give peace a chance that MK guitar was "on" ansd I don't think it was only to make it beautiful ;D
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/twat ;D